LLM API Pricing Comparison
Compare 55 leading large language models in one table. Prices are shown in USD per million tokens. 7 of 16 providers were verified within the last 14 days; each model page shows its source and verification date.
US providers use their native USD list prices. Chinese-provider rows use mainland-China official CNY prices converted at 1 USD = ¥6.7421; international endpoints, taxes, regional promotions, and enterprise contracts may differ.
| Model | Provider | Input | Output | Cached | Context | Quality | Heat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.5 Flash | 🇨🇳 Alibaba Qwen | $0.030 | $0.30 | — | 1M | — | — |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.010 | 1M | — | — | |
| Qwen3.5 Plus | 🇨🇳 Alibaba Qwen | $0.12 | $0.71 | — | 1M | — | — |
| Doubao 1.6 | 🇨🇳 ByteDance Doubao | $0.12 | $1.19 | $0.024 | 256K | — | — |
| Doubao 1.5 Pro | 🇨🇳 ByteDance Doubao | $0.12 | $0.30 | $0.024 | 256K | — | — |
| 文心 ERNIE 4.5 Turbo | 🇨🇳 Baidu ERNIE | $0.12 | $0.47 | $0.030 | 128K | — | — |
| 混元 TurboS | 🇨🇳 Tencent Hunyuan | $0.12 | $0.30 | — | 256K | — | — |
| Spark Ultra | 🇨🇳 iFlytek Spark | $0.12 | $0.12 | — | 128K | — | — |
| 文心 ERNIE X1 Turbo | 🇨🇳 Baidu ERNIE | $0.15 | $0.59 | — | 128K | — | — |
| 混元 T1 | 🇨🇳 Tencent Hunyuan | $0.15 | $0.59 | — | 64K | — | — |
| MiMo-V2.5 | 🇨🇳 小米 MiMo | $0.15 | $0.30 | $0.003 | 262K | — | #63.79T |
| 混元 Hy3 | 🇨🇳 Tencent Hunyuan | $0.15 | $0.59 | $0.037 | 262K | — | #29.95T |
| GPT-5.6 Luna | 🇺🇸 OpenAI | $0.20 | $1.20 | $0.020 | 1.1M | — | #35.31T |
| Step 3.7 Flash | 🇨🇳 阶跃星辰 | $0.20 | $1.20 | — | 131K | — | — |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite | $0.25 | $1.50 | $0.025 | 1M | 34 | — | |
| DeepSeek V3.2Retired 2026-07-24 | 🇨🇳 DeepSeek | $0.30 | $1.19 | $0.074 | 128K | — | — |
| GLM-4.7 | 🇨🇳 Zhipu AI | $0.30 | $1.19 | $0.059 | 200K | — | — |
| Spark X2 | 🇨🇳 iFlytek Spark | $0.30 | $0.30 | — | 200K | — | — |
| Spark X2 Flash | 🇨🇳 iFlytek Spark | $0.30 | $0.30 | — | 200K | — | — |
| Baichuan M2 | 🇨🇳 Baichuan AI | $0.30 | $2.97 | — | 192K | — | — |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | $0.30 | $2.50 | $0.030 | 1M | — | — | |
| MiniMax M3 | 🇨🇳 MiniMax | $0.31 | $1.25 | $0.062 | 1M | 55 | — |
| MiniMax M2.7 | 🇨🇳 MiniMax | $0.31 | $1.25 | $0.062 | 1M | 50 | — |
| Qwen3 Max | 🇨🇳 Alibaba Qwen | $0.37 | $1.48 | — | 256K | — | — |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 🇨🇳 DeepSeek | $0.44 | $1.33 | $0.015 | 1M | 47 | — |
| 混元 2.0 Think | 🇨🇳 Tencent Hunyuan | $0.59 | $2.36 | — | 128K | — | — |
| GLM-5 | 🇨🇳 Zhipu AI | $0.59 | $2.67 | $0.15 | 200K | — | — |
| 文心 ERNIE 5.1 | 🇨🇳 Baidu ERNIE | $0.59 | $2.67 | — | 128K | — | — |
| Spark Pro | 🇨🇳 iFlytek Spark | $0.74 | $0.74 | — | 128K | — | — |
| Baichuan M3 Plus | 🇨🇳 Baichuan AI | $0.74 | $1.33 | — | 192K | — | — |
| GLM-5.1 | 🇨🇳 Zhipu AI | $0.89 | $3.56 | $0.19 | 200K | 51 | — |
| Doubao Seed 2.1 Pro | 🇨🇳 ByteDance Doubao | $0.89 | $4.45 | $0.18 | 256K | — | — |
| Kimi K2.6 | 🇨🇳 Moonshot (Kimi) | $0.96 | $4.00 | $0.16 | 262K | 54 | — |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 🇺🇸 Anthropic | $1.00 | $5.00 | $0.10 | 200K | 37 | — |
| Grok Build 0.1 | 🇺🇸 xAI | $1.00 | $2.00 | $0.20 | 256K | — | — |
| GLM-5.2 | 🇨🇳 Zhipu AI | $1.19 | $4.15 | — | 1M | — | #54.33T |
| GPT-5.1 | 🇺🇸 OpenAI | $1.25 | $10.00 | $0.13 | 400K | — | — |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | $1.25 | $10.00 | $0.13 | 2M | 35 | — | |
| Grok 4.3 | 🇺🇸 xAI | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | 1M | 53 | — |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | 🇨🇳 DeepSeek | $1.33 | $4.00 | $0.044 | 1M | 52 | — |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | $1.50 | $7.50 | $0.15 | 1M | — | #92.28T | |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | $1.50 | $9.00 | $0.15 | 1M | 55 | — | |
| Qwen3.7 Max | 🇨🇳 Alibaba Qwen | $1.78 | $5.34 | — | 1M | 57 | — |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | 🇺🇸 OpenAI | $2.00 | $12.00 | $0.20 | 1.1M | — | — |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | 🇺🇸 Anthropic | $2.00 | $10.00 | $0.20 | 1M | 57 | — |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | $2.00 | $12.00 | $0.20 | 2M | 57 | — | |
| GPT-5.4 | 🇺🇸 OpenAI | $2.50 | $15.00 | $0.25 | 400K | — | — |
| Kimi K3 | 🇨🇳 Moonshot (Kimi) | $2.97 | $14.83 | $0.30 | 1.0M | — | — |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | 🇺🇸 Anthropic | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | 1M | 52 | — |
| GPT-5.5 | 🇺🇸 OpenAI | $5.00 | $30.00 | $0.50 | 400K | 60 | — |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | 🇺🇸 OpenAI | $5.00 | $30.00 | $0.50 | 1.1M | 59 | — |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | 🇺🇸 Anthropic | $5.00 | $25.00 | $0.50 | 1M | 61 | — |
| Claude Opus 5 | 🇺🇸 Anthropic | $5.00 | $25.00 | $0.50 | 1M | 61 | #82.67T |
| Claude Opus 4.7 | 🇺🇸 Anthropic | $5.00 | $25.00 | $0.50 | 1M | 57 | — |
| Claude Fable 5 | 🇺🇸 Anthropic | $10.00 | $50.00 | $1.00 | 1M | 60 | — |
USD per million tokens · Chinese providers converted at 1 USD = ¥6.7421 · Green = cheapest · Heat = OpenRouter weekly rank by token usage (popularity, not quality; checked 2026-08-17) · Source: official provider pricing pages · For reference only.
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How to pick the most cost-effective LLM
Input vs output pricing. Almost every provider charges separately for input tokens (your prompt) and output tokens (the generation), and output is typically 4–10× more expensive. So “short prompt, long answer” tasks (writing, code generation) are dominated by output price, while “long prompt, short answer” tasks (summarization, classification) are dominated by input price.
Use prompt caching. If your requests share a large repeated prefix (fixed system prompt, RAG context), cached input can cost 10–20% of the normal rate. DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google all support context caching, but the discount varies a lot.
Don’t default to flagships. Mid-tier models like Claude Haiku 4.5, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, Qwen3.5 Flash and DeepSeek V4 Flash are excellent value — for chat, translation, simple generation and classification they are more than enough at 1–5% of flagship cost.
Chinese models are aggressively priced. DeepSeek V4, Qwen, Doubao and Kimi often undercut Western models by an order of magnitude on output price. If latency to China matters or you’re cost-sensitive, they’re worth evaluating — see the dedicated Chinese LLM API pricing comparison in 2026 for all domestic providers in one table. Worried about data residency or training policies? We read all eight providers’ official policies in the Chinese AI API Trust Index.
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